I saw someone joke that "once Mistral gets back from their European summer, they'll really be in it", and damn, it does feel like that happened.
> their plan. to be the first to market with a certain type of multilingual model
> early in year: incorporate. start building
> hired an awesome team by march
> scraped / acquired all the data by june
> critical infra almost ready by july
> then comes august
> entire team goes on vacation for the entire month
> while they're gone, at least three competitors launch models
> team returns in september
> office vibe completely dead
> startup pivots to consulting